When: Friday, June 20, 2003 from 9:00am - 11:00am

Where: National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC

This was an embargoed media briefing.

The Lancet joined leading public-health scientists and international agencies in calling for a revolution in strategies for child health to tackle a global disaster. In total, ten and a half million children will die this year - seven and a half million from easily preventable causes such as diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, unnecessary neonatal deaths and malnutrition. The U.S. Agency for International Development joined The Lancet, Johns Hopkins University, the United Nations Children's Fund, World Bank, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, Global Health Council, and the U.S. Coalition for Child Survival to launch the five-article series on key child survival issues.

Dr. E. Anne Peterson, MD, MPH, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health, United States Agency for International Development, presents at the event [MS Word, 32KB]

Read other presentations from the Lancet Series: A Child Survival Revolution.